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Publisher's Summary

Eight classic spine-tingling tales to thrill you by M. R. James. This was James' first collection of ghost stories which he intended to be read aloud in the tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales.

Classic Stories of Hauntings and Supernatural Even

Tales that you might tell around the fire on a wintry evening when the wind is rattling the door and howling outside. Lots of frights and shudders. Good old fashioned fun!

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Anonymous User

08-30-17

variable narration

Bart Wolffe is amazing, but the other narrators sounded like they were reading the news...

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The Supreme Galactic Overlord of Ipswich

03-21-16

A tale of three narrators

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I thought the two female narrators deliveries were totally unsuited to old Horror stories. The first Emma (Topping, perhaps?) sounded like she was reading the East Midlands news on a particularly uneventful day. And Emma Hignett (I think I have the Emmas the right way round) had a voice ideally suited to modern day women's fiction.

In short, I ended up listening only to those stories narrated by Bart Wolffe. The other stories I shall read on my Kindle.", "type" : "Performance", "question" : "What aspect of the narrators’s performance might you have changed?", "id" : 207, "typeString" : "performance" }, { "answer" : "Yes. After listening to the first story I switched off the light and in the gloom noticed that my wardrobe door was open. I lay awake for a while imagining that I saw a slight movement among the clothes or that I heard a rustling coming from there. Such thoughts would not have gone through my head had I not listened to that story. It thus inspired me to get up and close the wardrobe door so that I could sleep more easily.", "type" : "Genre", "question" : "Did Ghost Stories of an Antiquary inspire you to do anything?", "id" : 243, "typeString" : "genre" }, { "answer" : "", "type" : "Misc", "question" : "Any additional comments?", "id" : -1, "typeString" : "misc" } ]

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Dominic Gill

09-22-15

Terrible reading performance

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dave

07-13-15

Ghost stories of an antiquary by M R James

Even allow ing for the now archaic phraseology ag possibly over porecise English that was used when James was writing these chilling stories they are still the epitome of the genre. The readers are excellent and contribute to the atmosphere of creepiness